[Python-Dev] OpenBSD anyone?

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Dec 22 14:59:43 EST 2003


> It doesn't get as far as the banner:
> 
> Script started on Mon Dec 22 14:42:19 2003
> hydra /home/kbk/proj/sandbox/python_clean$ gdb ./python
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> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /home/kbk/proj/sandbox/python_clean/./python 
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x401900a0 in strchr ()
> (gdb) quit
> The program is running.  Quit anyway (and kill it)? (y or n) y
> hydra /home/kbk/proj/sandbox/python_clean$ 
> Script done on Mon Dec 22 14:42:38 2003
> 
> Investigating.

That suggests it's still in Py_Initialize().  What does the gdb
command 'bt' say???

I'd also try another experiment: instead of "run" try "run -S".  This
passes the -S option to Python when it is started, so that it doesn't
try to load site.py (which executes rather a lot of Python code).  I'd
be interested in seeing how much you can do interactively in that
case, of if it still crashes in Py_Initialize().

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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